Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Sad Accident. [ARTICLE]

Sad Accident.

Ten Russian papers record a distressing accident which recently took place near Dorpat Wolves had appeared in unusual numbers. A hunter determined to kill tome of them, hoping to frighten away the band. A horee died during the day. He purchased the body and placed It in the edge of the woods, to draw the wolves. The night was dark. Armed with several rifles, he took his stand under a covert at nightfall. He had not been long at his post when he saw something black mov ing actively on the horn’s carcass. Sure it was a wolf, he aimed and fired. I®* staotly he heard a despairing shriek, evidently from a human being, which save him the greatest uneasiness. He went up and found a poor woman mortally wounoed and in death’s agony. She told him she was the mother of three' children dying of hunger; she bad observed the carcass during the day, but was ashamed to be seen taking a portion of it, so she waited till nightfall to cut a piece of it for her starving children. dShe had a kitchen knife and lying by her was a stew pan she had brought to receive the meat • ' Her story was investigated, and found to be true In every particular. The investigation led, moreover, to the discovery of the existence of great distress among the peasants of the neighborhood.- The neighboring authorities at once took measures for the support of the three orphans. One of them was given to the hunter, the involuntary cause of their mother's death. He undertook to bring it up, and launch it well ip life. The village undertook the care of another. The authorities ordered the head of the village to take charge of the third, “ because He should have ascertained the distress of the victim and her family, and have prevented her, by bis charity, from being driven to the cruel extremity which caused her death.”